Lack of body affects murder case in Delray woman’s vanishing at sea

They’re likely the biggest hurdles, although not historically insurmountable ones, for prosecutors alleging Lewis Bennett murdered his wife at sea.

There’s no body.

And, by the way, no witness.

Last week, the FBI and federal prosecutors charged Bennett, a 41-year-old dual England-Australia national, with second-degree murder. They allege that, on May 15, he killed 41-year-old suburban Delray Beach real estate broker Isabella Hellmann, his bride of three months and the mother of their child, in international waters south of Key West, then deliberately sank his catamaran and staged it as an accident.